Zhanette Coffee, Ph.D., MSN, APRN, spent years working as an advanced practice nurse with certifications in family practice ...

A letter from Dr. Paula Riggs, Professor, Psychiatry. You've probably heard a lot about the youth mental health crisis and ...

Us Weekly and the harris project dive into how co-occurring disorders played a role in Lamar Odom's 2015 overdose in 'The ...

When MultiCare peer support liaison Chandelle Gill speaks to a patient about their addiction, she can see herself.

Bipolar disorder is a mood disorder that includes at least one manic episode – characterized by elevated or agitated mood and often reduced need for sleep – accompanied by episodes of major ...

Purdue Pharma has filed a new bankruptcy plan to settle thousands of lawsuits over the toll of the opioid painkiller ...

Purdue Pharma and the Sackler families agreed Thursday to increase their financial contribution to $7.4 billion to resolve mass opioid litigation. Purdue Pharma and the Sackler families agreed ...

Congress and the Florida Legislature must eliminate cost disparities between opioid and non-opioid options. Congress and the Florida Legislature must eliminate cost disparities between opioid and ...

During depositions, he was asked about the responsibility Purdue had toward the patients who were prescribed the company's opioids and then suffered from Opioid Use Disorder, or addiction.

Purging disorder is a type of eating disorder in which a person self-induces vomiting or uses laxatives, enemas, or diuretics ("water pills") to purge the body of food they have eaten. It differs from ...

The first study of its kind to examine problem drug use in Cork has found that there are over 850 opioid users in the ... substance use disorders, overdoses and death, the study said.

Conversion disorder is a psychiatric condition in which a person has neurological symptoms affecting movement or the senses, like paralysis or blindness, with no physiological cause. In the past, such ...